This week in GPS is a weekly link roundup of (mostly) GPS related odds and ends, from GPS Tracklog and other places around the Web. This week’s featured image is one of the GPS III satellites, part of the GPS upgrade which has gone hilariously overbudget. Read more about it below!
Here are some other things happening in the world of GPS this week:
From GPS Tracklog
- US Government To Test eLoran as Backup
- Garmin Removes Viago App With No Fanfare
- GPS III Program, Ground Systems Grossly Over Budget
- Earn Geocaching Road Trip Souvenirs
- Supermarket Uses LEDs for Indoor GPS
- Systems Allows Drones to Fly Without GPS
GPS Tracking
- Domino’s plans Uber-style pizza delivery tracker
- Gazeley business man launches Tracca – a GPS collar and smartphone app for dogs
- Installing GPS trackers in city vehicles presents a challenge
Satellite Stuff
- GLONASS Satellites Will Be ‘Made in Russia’ Only
- USAF Draft RFP Would Re-Open Competition for GPS Satellite Launch Services
GPS in the news
- GPS tracking device leads police to Loop bank robbery suspect
- Irish inventors driving the high-tech farm of the future
- UN Seminar on SatNav Explored Sharing, Education
- Apple Inc. Watch Gains Ground In Fitness Space
- GPS helps cops nab Loop bank robbery suspect
- ICE Release Illegal Crossers with GPS Trackers
- Quick Tip: Turning Off GPS for Microsoft Band Activities
- NovAtel Offers Marine Antenna that Blocks Inmarsat Interference
- Mother’s lawsuit: Flawed GPS, overworked parole officers led to her daughter’s death in O.C. serial killings
- Auto Theft Thwarted by GPS Technology
- Retailers Want To Use Beacons Equipped With GPS Technology To Track Your In-Store Movements
The business of GPS
- RPD receives RISE Award for innovative GPS program
- DoT Completes 2014 Federal Radionavigation Plan
- Federal Radionavigation Plan Touches on NDGPS, eLoran
Just Geo
- BOOKS: Don Easterbrook shares new book on the geology of the San Juans
- What Does The San Andreas Fault Do? Geology Confirms That The Movie Is Probably More Fiction Than Fact
- Lake Erie Islands’ geology is unique
- Times columnist to lead Quarry Park geology walk
- Texas geological survey likely to investigate quakes is awash in oil and gas money
- Talon Metals Announces New Discovery at Tamarack
- U.S. Geological Survey releases frac sand research
- Geologists use jelly, lasers and water to unravel mystery of volcanic eruption
All the news that doesn’t fit
- Ditch the GPS technology – let nature guide you
- Smartphone location tracking via Wi-Fi signals, motion sensors for subway riders
